Quote:... one nice thing about the Morozevich ...Nf6 and ...Be7 lines is that you can semi-force the King's Indian Attack into them with the most common move orders ...
Which KIA and move-orders are those, RD?
There’s indeed a baffling cornucopia of sometimes-transposing anti-Tarrasch systems, even within the main two third-move replies! For example 3 …c5 4 Ngf3
Nf6!? as well as 4 …cd and 4 …Nc6; or 4 ed ed 5 Ngf3
c4!? as well as 5 …Nc6; or 4 ed ed 5 Ngf3 Nc6 6 Bb5
cd!? as well as 6 …Bd6 or 6 …Qe7. Then there’s 3 …c5 4 ed
Qd5 5 Ngf3 cd 6 Bc4
Qd7!?, delaying …Nf6 since Ne4 won’t come with tempo.
Perhaps choice should come down to whether you feel happier in blocked or in more open positions. Re the latter, one system I’ve always been interested in but haven’t seen much writing on is 3 …Nf6 4 e5 Nfd7 5 f4 c5 6 c3 Nc6 7 Ndf3 cd 8 cd
a5!? 9 Bd3 a4 10 Ne2 Nb6. A guy called Bunzmann specialises in this, Moskalenko’s book has one game with it, and I think Simon Williams covers it. After
5 Bd3 iso 5 f4 you can get the same position with 5 …c5 6 c3 Nc6 (if, that is, you can resist playing here the startling ‘Senegalese Surprise’
6 …b5!?) 7 Ne2 a5!? 8 f4 cd 9 cd a4 10 Nf3 Nb6. White can diverge with
8 0-0 a4 9 Nf3, but Bunzmann has happily played this too (9 …a3!) ...